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a recent study concluded raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would boost the economy. we're talking about the effects it would have for everybody. it would increase the wages of 30 million workers, it would create 140,000 jobs in the next few years, and increase economic output by $32 billion. >> wow. wow. and we talked so much about trickle down, how about a little trickle up? people living paycheck to paycheck they spend that money. they buy goods and services. where then more people need to be employed. i would argue that not only is there no negative impact on the budget, a lot of the folks that are working full-time in fast food, in places like walmart, they are still even though they're working, not able to support themselves and their families. so taxpayers have to shell out the money for s.n.a.p., for welfare for folks to be able to get by even though they are working by and doing everything they can. so by having an artificially low minimum wage, we are essentially as taxpayers providing corporate subsidies. >> you know, jared, when you look at the republicans
a recent study concluded raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would boost the economy. we're talking about the effects it would have for everybody. it would increase the wages of 30 million workers, it would create 140,000 jobs in the next few years, and increase economic output by $32 billion. >> wow. wow. and we talked so much about trickle down, how about a little trickle up? people living paycheck to paycheck they spend that money. they buy goods and services. where then more...
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>> the president's health care law continues to wreak havoc on families, small businesses and economy. it's not just a broken website. this bill is fundamentally flawed. >> our republican colleagues have focused so much attention, in fact, obsessed in killing the affordable care act they failed to focus on real needs of americans. >> smashing the speed limit. investigators say derailed commuter train traveling three times the legal speed heading into that dangerous curve 82 miles an hour. still unknown was the crash that killed four passengers caused by mechanical failure or operator error. >> for the train to be going 82 miles an hour around that curve is just a
>> the president's health care law continues to wreak havoc on families, small businesses and economy. it's not just a broken website. this bill is fundamentally flawed. >> our republican colleagues have focused so much attention, in fact, obsessed in killing the affordable care act they failed to focus on real needs of americans. >> smashing the speed limit. investigators say derailed commuter train traveling three times the legal speed heading into that dangerous curve 82...
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the nature of the economy looks like a republican economy, in so far as it is a very unequal one. >> the inequality causes low economic growth. you can't get job growth with these levels of poverty. you can't have the jobs that invest in health care, the tax breaks are given to the rich -- >> you have a lot less productive -- productive consumption, essentially, the money points back to the economy. >> you don't have demand because people don't have jobs or they're working at low wage work. so you don't have the demand that would spark business investment. >> and the president today i think was making this very practical case, which was interesting, he kept saying it is not ideological, this is actually the thing that is not working. i think that pragmatic argument has been a rising argument in the last few years. >> oh, no, there has been speculation on the right wing, the left wing, the data is out, it is correlated with sluggish growth. that some of the most equal societies in the world actually have the highest economic growth and the more emphasis on education. we taught the nat
the nature of the economy looks like a republican economy, in so far as it is a very unequal one. >> the inequality causes low economic growth. you can't get job growth with these levels of poverty. you can't have the jobs that invest in health care, the tax breaks are given to the rich -- >> you have a lot less productive -- productive consumption, essentially, the money points back to the economy. >> you don't have demand because people don't have jobs or they're working at...
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wage increase and they spend that money and put it right back into the economy. those are the workers that eat at the establishments they work at. you might think of walmart wokkers buying more goods at walmart so this is a form of economic stimulus, but aside from the economic argument, chris, when half of all american workers make $27,000 or less that is unsustainable for our economy. it's unsustainable for creating a broad, middle class and it's a moral issue as well as an economic issue. >> kendall who is organizing this today was on my program a couple of days ago and he talked about the fact that it was a moral imperative and we heard about it yesterday who was facing a loss of pension, but he sees these issues in those same kind of moral terms and here's something else that kendall fell said to me earlier this week. >> the thing is they work for some of the richest corporations in the world. mcdonald's made about $5.5 billion in profit and that's after they pay all of the bills and pay all of the salaries and these workers, a lot of them are living in home
wage increase and they spend that money and put it right back into the economy. those are the workers that eat at the establishments they work at. you might think of walmart wokkers buying more goods at walmart so this is a form of economic stimulus, but aside from the economic argument, chris, when half of all american workers make $27,000 or less that is unsustainable for our economy. it's unsustainable for creating a broad, middle class and it's a moral issue as well as an economic issue....
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the economy is not good. it may be better than it was a year ago, but it's not good. unemployment is very high. the ability -- there are three applicants for every job. making people more desperate to get jobs, even if it meant that someone was so desperate that he got a job he wouldn't otherwise would have gotten, if you're not increasing the number of jobs, that simply means you're throwing someone else out of work. >> right. congressman jerry nadler, who's been fighting these battles for a while now, thank you so much for joining me. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> joining me now, heda bruche with the washington center for equitable growth, housed at the center for american progress, a progressive think tank. heather, can we start basic here? what is unemployment insurance and why do we have it? >> thanks for asking, chris. that's a great question. unemployment insurance are benefits there when somebody loses their job through no fault of their own. it's benefits that are supposed to help them make ends meet while they search for a new job, and critically, these be
the economy is not good. it may be better than it was a year ago, but it's not good. unemployment is very high. the ability -- there are three applicants for every job. making people more desperate to get jobs, even if it meant that someone was so desperate that he got a job he wouldn't otherwise would have gotten, if you're not increasing the number of jobs, that simply means you're throwing someone else out of work. >> right. congressman jerry nadler, who's been fighting these battles...
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got a lot of help from the lousy economy, his opponent's blunders and he seemed to connect with the swing voter in massachusetts that was not strong enough to hold on to the seat two years later when he ran for a full term and faced a charismatic populist who did know how to run a campaign and beat him by eight points. even in his concession speech, brown made it clear he had not run his last campaign. there was speculation he would run for governor of massachusetts, or for the state's other u.s. senate seat. what no one would have predicted a year ago is that brown had given up altogether on the idea of running in massachusetts. and is now focusing on the state's neighbor to the north, the less blue, more republican friendly state of new hampshire. so he's been taking that pickup truck of his into the granite state, where democratic senator jeanne shaheen will run for re-election next year. the polling shows he might actually have a shot in september. shaheen was edging brown by only four points. in order to face shaheen, if he gets that far, brown has to get past some interesting primar
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government shutdown and do keep the spending caps in place and don't raise taxes at a time when the economy is still weak and i think we can accomplish that over the next couple days. >> one issue still being debated extending long-term unemployment benefits. last week house mortgage leader nancy pelosi said any deal must include an extension but dick durbin said that is not the case. >> i don't think we've reached that point where we said this is it take it or leave it. what i hear from patty murray, i spoke to her the other night negotiations are making progress, moving in the right direction. >> congress has scheduled to begin its break this friday and not return until january the 7th. >>> well, a week after that deadly commuter train wreck in new york officials are upgrading signals. the new signals are expected to be up and running this morning. of course, four people were killed last sunday when a metro north train hit a stretch of track at nearly three times the speed limit. metro north now reducing the maximum speeds at 26 locations across the system. an attorney for the engineer op
government shutdown and do keep the spending caps in place and don't raise taxes at a time when the economy is still weak and i think we can accomplish that over the next couple days. >> one issue still being debated extending long-term unemployment benefits. last week house mortgage leader nancy pelosi said any deal must include an extension but dick durbin said that is not the case. >> i don't think we've reached that point where we said this is it take it or leave it. what i hear...
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>> president's het care law continues to wreak havoc on american families small businesses and our economy. it's not just a broken website. this bill is fundamentally flawed. >> and back to the "washington post" report, it did reveal another headache, errors have affected roughly one third of the people who signed up for health plans since october 1st. those errors include failure to notify insurers about new customers, dup my cat enrollments on misinformation. jay carney addressed that report a few minutes ago. >> our general contractor has stood up a team of experts working already closely with issuers to make sure that every a 34 form past and present is accurate. we believe that and our confident that they will be able to ensure that accuracy in time for the january 1st beginning of coverage. >> peter alexander joins me. peter, it is a new day, new tone and we will hear from the president shortly. in a sense, maybe not the icing on the cake but certainly a show of confidence in the last 24 hours. >> reporter: it is a show of some public confidence right now. it's certainly a new tone,
>> president's het care law continues to wreak havoc on american families small businesses and our economy. it's not just a broken website. this bill is fundamentally flawed. >> and back to the "washington post" report, it did reveal another headache, errors have affected roughly one third of the people who signed up for health plans since october 1st. those errors include failure to notify insurers about new customers, dup my cat enrollments on misinformation. jay carney...
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the economy in general. the congressional budget office which is a nonpartisan group has said if we don't extend unemployment compensation, we will have 200,000 fewer jobs by the end of the year, by this time next year. and that's not the folks who are unemployed, that's because those families will not have the money to go out and buy goods and services at their local stores. so it helps -- it helps everybody to help provide some support to these struggling families who are looking for work every day and absolutely congress should not leave town. it would be outrageous for congress to leave town without addressing this important issue. >> as you know, there are only four more days on the calendar, at least right now. if you're putting the odds and if you're right that they're only 50-50 that there is some kind of deal, how do you get from point a to point b, which is a deal in these next few days, because obviously there's a lot at stake. what's going to have to happen here? >> well, these are all the pieces
the economy in general. the congressional budget office which is a nonpartisan group has said if we don't extend unemployment compensation, we will have 200,000 fewer jobs by the end of the year, by this time next year. and that's not the folks who are unemployed, that's because those families will not have the money to go out and buy goods and services at their local stores. so it helps -- it helps everybody to help provide some support to these struggling families who are looking for work...
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economy is finally healing. and it could prove to be an important issue, of course for democrats next year despite the rocky rollout of healthcare.gov. our first read team puts it this way, six months from now vulnerable democratic senators and gop governors could have a positive message to tell next year to constituents that backed up by the facts the economy is getting better and better each month. joining me live now, nbc news senior political editor mark murray and clair voiant because we're looking how this is playing out. it is intriguing to see what will help those who are perhaps in a lot of trouble. >> it is pretty clear when you're looking ahead to the 2014 midterm, so much analysis and thought has been talked about the president's health care law or republicans shut down back in october. not a lot of attention has been paid to the economy. when you look at the story of the economy over the past year, even over the past 24 months, things are getting much better. it isn't out of the realm of possibility
economy is finally healing. and it could prove to be an important issue, of course for democrats next year despite the rocky rollout of healthcare.gov. our first read team puts it this way, six months from now vulnerable democratic senators and gop governors could have a positive message to tell next year to constituents that backed up by the facts the economy is getting better and better each month. joining me live now, nbc news senior political editor mark murray and clair voiant because...
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. >> this killing health benefits is shattering the economy all across the country, in all 50 states. >> of course there are death panels in there. the important thing to remember is that's just one aspect of this atrocious, unaffordable, cumbersome, burdensome, evil policy of obama's. and that is obama care. >> obama care is really, i think, the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery. and it is in a way, it is slavery in a way. >> howard, is this the evil empire speech reapplied to obama care? i mean, i've never heard the word evil used to many times. i love the way sarah palin is unbelievably delicious at this. she talks about and those death panels are in there. i love the way she says the death panels are in there somewhere. like they're creeping around inside. >> i mean, sam very rightly and logically said these people should stop because the president said, repeated today, and reminded them that he's going to be in office. he can veto anything. so they ought to calm down. but the fact is when you watch a few of those clips and when you talk to people in the m
. >> this killing health benefits is shattering the economy all across the country, in all 50 states. >> of course there are death panels in there. the important thing to remember is that's just one aspect of this atrocious, unaffordable, cumbersome, burdensome, evil policy of obama's. and that is obama care. >> obama care is really, i think, the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery. and it is in a way, it is slavery in a way. >> howard, is this the...
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. >> if they thought they could control that much of the economy and that much of the policy board, i would see them aiming at that. i think they short term hope that happens. but with 1.5 million people being told they qualify for medicaid, with thousands signing up. with more people signing up for obama care in the last two days than the first whole month of the program, i think the train is out of the station, i think it will be politically influx -- >> rachel, the debate has just changed. you know, when the conversation was only about the inability to get on line, and there was confusion out there, 85% of americans don't need to be concerned with going on line. i will say you have insurance through your employer, nothing is going to change for you. so i think the confusion has really been a detriment. i am from pennsylvania, we don't have our exchange, i probably would have more than two dozen choices. if our governor had cooperated, i think in addition to aetna and in addition to blue cross i would be looking for more solutions. in the end, people say what does it mean to me, i c
. >> if they thought they could control that much of the economy and that much of the policy board, i would see them aiming at that. i think they short term hope that happens. but with 1.5 million people being told they qualify for medicaid, with thousands signing up. with more people signing up for obama care in the last two days than the first whole month of the program, i think the train is out of the station, i think it will be politically influx -- >> rachel, the debate has...
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economy continuing to strengthen. i think the president's numbers will recover and people's confidence will recover. >> then, of course, chuck todd had that great point -- >> that was a good point. >> do we have that clip? here's what chuck todd had to say on "meet the press." he pointed out a freudian slip? >> he made a great point. >> watch this, chuck todd. >> page three of the report it says here that the team is operating with private-sector velocity and effectiveness. okay. that is an acknowledgement that, you know what? if this was a government operation for at that long time and it failed now we're bringing in the private-sector folks. that's an indictment on the whole idea of government as a solution, frankly. >> i'm sorry, i was going to tell robert gibbs that's the first time i've laughed since saturday night. >> private-sector velocity. i have to use that as a descriptive term in the future. they did bring in a lot of people from the private-sector to help fix the problems that we do know, robert. >> absol
economy continuing to strengthen. i think the president's numbers will recover and people's confidence will recover. >> then, of course, chuck todd had that great point -- >> that was a good point. >> do we have that clip? here's what chuck todd had to say on "meet the press." he pointed out a freudian slip? >> he made a great point. >> watch this, chuck todd. >> page three of the report it says here that the team is operating with private-sector...
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the fact is our economy is actually paying for this anyway. why not give people the dignity of a minimum wage increase for $7.13, proposal we have in the congress to $10.10. index to inflation so no longer will we have to engage in this debate about whether our wages are really keeping up with inflation of the economic benefit for us is about $33 billion a year in terms of gdp growth. >> congresswoman, i also just played a bit of speaker boehner's briefing today when he acknowledged a "politico" report by mike allen that republicans are coaching their candidates on how to be more sensitive if they have female opponents. he's trying to coach members of republican caucus to be more sensitive to female and women's issues. do you think that's the problem? >> i think women are sensitive to the fact you can talk the talk but if you don't walk the walk in terms of policies you offer, being nice about it in a sensitive way isn't going to make a difference for women. part of the reason you see that huge divide, what seems like a conversation that shoul
the fact is our economy is actually paying for this anyway. why not give people the dignity of a minimum wage increase for $7.13, proposal we have in the congress to $10.10. index to inflation so no longer will we have to engage in this debate about whether our wages are really keeping up with inflation of the economic benefit for us is about $33 billion a year in terms of gdp growth. >> congresswoman, i also just played a bit of speaker boehner's briefing today when he acknowledged a...
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that tells you about some aspect of the economy. >> yeah, absolutely. must be good news in there. lester holt is back with us from inside the arena where it only has gotten louder, lester. >> it's gotten louder, and that's why i have the set of a sports announcement, and it's loud. the gates opened at 6:00 local time here and they came in here and they have been singing and chanting and just a sense of euphoria here. you see the band moved into the stadium, so we suspect things to get underway shortly as more dignitaries collide. the crowd has been enjoying themselves and singing along with what they know, and in this part of africa, rain is considered a good omen, a rebirth, and so how fitting it is that we are experiencing this steady rain this morning. >> hamid karzi arriving in his traditional garb from afghanistan. if you are up with us after 4:00 a.m. eastern time, you can go to the new york times website and see an interesting article this morning on keeping some of these leaders apart. you have got raul castro, and japan and china, and they have to have a seating area. at
that tells you about some aspect of the economy. >> yeah, absolutely. must be good news in there. lester holt is back with us from inside the arena where it only has gotten louder, lester. >> it's gotten louder, and that's why i have the set of a sports announcement, and it's loud. the gates opened at 6:00 local time here and they came in here and they have been singing and chanting and just a sense of euphoria here. you see the band moved into the stadium, so we suspect things to...
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this economy wants to grow. the private-sector wants to invest. we're still 20% of the world's gdp and almost as if the private-sector is dig a trench around washington and finding its own way forward. >> isn't that amazing? washington is the problem. we have so many things to be excited about in this country, we have an energy revolution that's going on, the i.t. revolution continues, we dominate in silicon valley and as you know manufacturing is coming back to this country, low energy costs over the next five to ten years, the fact that we're the most productive people on the planet, but for washington, d.c.'s dysfunction we would be zooming forward. this is the american century. this is the new american century if washington can just figure it out. >> what an indictment our growth has a two in front of it as opposed to a three or four which is possible. >> the american public has some hope and faith that here we are no label problem solvers, republicans, democrats, independents. they are willing to put their country before themselves or their p
this economy wants to grow. the private-sector wants to invest. we're still 20% of the world's gdp and almost as if the private-sector is dig a trench around washington and finding its own way forward. >> isn't that amazing? washington is the problem. we have so many things to be excited about in this country, we have an energy revolution that's going on, the i.t. revolution continues, we dominate in silicon valley and as you know manufacturing is coming back to this country, low energy...
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. >> the steadily improving economy is actually on the horizon. >> a budget deal by the end of the week. >> of course there's a caveat. >> but at what cost for the unemployed. >> congress has just five days left. >> federal benefits expire at the end of the year, to vote to extend the unemployment benefit program. >> i do support unemployment benefits for the 26 weeks they're paid for. >> the republican argument from senator rand paul. >> if you extend it beyond that, you do a disservice to these workers.
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i actually, by the way, i like the fact that there's going to be less fiscal head winds on the economy in 2014 and 2015. many democrats would have liked to see extended unemployment insurance in there. that wasn't in the bill. >> let me bring back in richard wolffe. richard, how do they get the votes on this? and are they trying to prove after such a non-productive congress, one of the northeast non-productive congresses in history, that they can make something work? because i noticed senator murray particularly made the point that they made the compromise government could work. >> if government can work means they can avoid a shutdown and pass a basic budget, i guess we should be celebrating them doing the basic part of their job. you know, great. we're going to avoid the crises, the self-imposed crises we've had the last couple years. that is, i suppose, good news. paul ryan goes on his long journey of remaking himself compared to where he was with his first budget proposals. for democrats there have got to be serious concerns here about the failure to extend unemployment insurance.
i actually, by the way, i like the fact that there's going to be less fiscal head winds on the economy in 2014 and 2015. many democrats would have liked to see extended unemployment insurance in there. that wasn't in the bill. >> let me bring back in richard wolffe. richard, how do they get the votes on this? and are they trying to prove after such a non-productive congress, one of the northeast non-productive congresses in history, that they can make something work? because i noticed...
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it helps our whole economy grow. we certainly want people who work to be able to afford their family budget. so i would hope this would be noncontroversial. n we've done it in the past. i hope we do it again. >> in fact, you've been quite vociferous about it. in your home stand of maryland, two county there is have raised their minimum wages to $11.50 an hour. we've seen this in other local governments across the country. do you think it's the only way this initiative is going to succeed, keep it local, give up on congress, and the federal increase? >> every time we've increased the minimum wage, it's helped our economy. every time. we've heard predictions it would cost jobs. it increases jobs. it increases livability, the standard of living for americans. so it's something that we should embrace. what we're trying to do is not really increase it. we're trying to adjust it so it makings up for the loss over the last many years. it really just brings it -- tries to bring it back to what it used to be. that should be s
it helps our whole economy grow. we certainly want people who work to be able to afford their family budget. so i would hope this would be noncontroversial. n we've done it in the past. i hope we do it again. >> in fact, you've been quite vociferous about it. in your home stand of maryland, two county there is have raised their minimum wages to $11.50 an hour. we've seen this in other local governments across the country. do you think it's the only way this initiative is going to succeed,...
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those are still growing but not growing so fast relative to other parts of the economy. that pulled women in. the growth of women's presence in education and higher education, increased in the '70s and 80s and plateaued sometime in the '90s, depending on which measure you look at. and then we really saw strong pattern of women entering men's occupations, especially in middle class jobs, those women, college graduates, but not so much movement the other way. women were entering professions like law and medicine or realty or educational administration that had been previously male jobs. but men weren't going into nursing and teaching preschool and elementary school -- >> let's look at some of those numbers. that is such a shocking part of your study. one in four men actually work in fields you report that are dominated 90% by males. one in three women work in fields that have 80% of women in the workplace of the your study tells the story of a professional environment in the united states where huge, huge portions of our working public are in a one gender office. >> yes, o
those are still growing but not growing so fast relative to other parts of the economy. that pulled women in. the growth of women's presence in education and higher education, increased in the '70s and 80s and plateaued sometime in the '90s, depending on which measure you look at. and then we really saw strong pattern of women entering men's occupations, especially in middle class jobs, those women, college graduates, but not so much movement the other way. women were entering professions like...
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you talked about growing the economy, about ten times in a five minute interview. that really is the challenge, is it not, for both parties? we have all these ideological battles, you look at real wages going down every year since 1973. you look at job growth struggling. that's the real challenge for republicans and democrats moving forward. >> that's why the 47% comments governor romney made so devastating in that campaign, the plans to grow the economy to give people an opportunity to climb the ladder, church hill said the difference between the left and right the left offers the line, the right offers the ladder. for republicans we need to tell a story how you climb that ladder, how you create opportunity, how you come up to the middle class in this country again. and fundamentally important if we're to be successful. >> the book is "the new democrats and return to power." al from thank you so much. we're watching major weather changes moving across the country and it could impact travel. bill karins tracking a serious winter storm. "morning joe" will be right b
you talked about growing the economy, about ten times in a five minute interview. that really is the challenge, is it not, for both parties? we have all these ideological battles, you look at real wages going down every year since 1973. you look at job growth struggling. that's the real challenge for republicans and democrats moving forward. >> that's why the 47% comments governor romney made so devastating in that campaign, the plans to grow the economy to give people an opportunity to...
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